Principal Software Engineer

Posted:
11/12/2024, 4:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Texas, United States ⋅ Austin, Texas, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Principal Software Engineer

Description -

Job Summary
• This role is responsible for delivering software solutions that address specific requirements and contribute to improved user experiences. The role establishes and enforces coding standards, quality control processes, and testing methodologies to ensure the reliability and quality of software applications. The role monitors application performance, scalability, and responsiveness, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and issues. The role maintains clear and effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates, addressing concerns, and managing expectations.

Responsibilities
• Oversees the software application development projects across multiple teams.
• Accurately determines, assigns, tracks, and manages project tasks, activities, documentation, and time information to ensure project success.
• Develops organization-wide architectures and methodologies for software applications design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the global business unit.
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Provides cross-functional leadership and communicates technical infrastructures and application development strategies effectively.
• Manages resources to complete programming projects, and designs detailed plans to ensure applications are functioning properly.
• Contributes towards engineering best practices, including security, quality, and operational excellence; drives projects to improve practices continuously for the benefit of the organization.
• Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members to set an example of software applications design and development innovation and excellence.

Education & Experience Recommended
• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in applications engineering, programming, or a related field.

Preferred Skills
• Programming Languages (C#, C++, ReactNative, JavaScript, or similar)

Knowledge & Skills
• Agile Methodology
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Automation
• C# and C++ (Programming Language)
• Computer Science
• DevOps
• Full Stack Development
• JavaScript (Programming Language)
• React.js
• Scalability
• Software Development
• Software Engineering

Cross-Org Skills
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
• Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.

Complexity
• Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

Disclaimer
• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The base pay range for this role is $146,650.00 to $225,850.00 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only).  Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

  • Health insurance

  • Dental insurance

  • Vision insurance

  • Long term/short term disability insurance

  • Employee assistance program

  • Flexible spending account

  • Life insurance

  • Generous time off policies, including; 

    • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure

    • 11 paid holidays

    • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Job -

Software

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

No

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO)

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).

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Hewlett Packard (HP)

Website: http://www.hp.com/

Headquarter Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1939

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Computer ⋅ Consumer Electronics ⋅ Hardware ⋅ IT Infrastructure ⋅ Software